OTICE. DKT GOO??. NOTIONS. BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CLOTHING^, KUBBEU GOODS J. L. BABEH, POOAHONTAS, VA Low prices and polite clems. TAZEWEI This is the Season Of the year when everything is scarce and overworked "wives worry over whnt to hnvo for dinner. You can do no better than take the advice of an old housokeepor and got from R. C. CHAPMAN a small quantity of that fine Green Tea or if you prefer it try%J31aclc Tea or He-No T?a (he keeps every kicd) and then buy a small quantity?say two or three pouiidB each?of Dried Peaches, Apiicotsor Prunes (he has some excellent goods in this line), aud by the way I noticed wbilo there tho other day?1 sup pose he has some left yet?a complete lino of goods, such as Chow Chow, Worcester Sauce, Horse Uud ish, Prepared Mustard, Catsup, &c, that you'll find excellent with meats. CHAPMAN seems to be building up quite a "rep" for fine goods and I am so glad of it, for do you know it is very seldom you can find in a town so small w? this Buch a line ...

*? Clinch \ taze'Weli This is the Season Of the jear when overytbing is scarce and overworked wives worry over what to bavo for dinner. You can do uo better tban take the advice of an old housekeeper and get from It. 0. CHAPMAN a small quantity of that fine Greeu Tea or if you prefer it try Black Tea or He-No T*a (bo keeps every kind) and then buy a small quantity?say two or three pounds each?of Dried Peaches, ApricotB or Prunos (he has socue excellent goods ia this line), and by the way I notisod while there the other day?I sup? pose be has some left yet?a complete line of goods, sucb as Chow Cbow, Worcester Sauce, Horse Ut?d iBb, Prepared Mustard, Catsup, &c, that you'll find excellent with meats. CHAPMAN seems to bo building up quite a "rep" for fine goods and I am so glad of it, for do you kuow it it very seldom you cnu find in a town so smull as this such a line of goods us he keeps ? Du roth of Chicago, carries more goods than CHAPMAN, but iu quality CHAPMAN is bis equal. ...

MIRAOn, Trcasuro tbo shadow. 8oraowhore, firmly based, Arise those turrcnts that in cloud land shine; Somewhere, to thirsty toilers of tho waste, - Yen phantom well spring is a liviug sign. Treasure the shadow. Somowhero past thy sieht, Post all men's sight, waits tho true hoaven at last; Tell them whoso fear would put thy hope to flight There are no shadows save from substance cast. ?Edith M. Thomas, in Llppincott's. A MIDNIGHT MYSTERY. N a cheerless apart? ment ou the sixth floor of a New York tenement, one cold, bleak November night, sat a youug woman whose face bore cvidcut marks of intelligence and refinement. Two small rooms comprised the nar? row domain to which she gave the name of home. 'Their chucrlessoess was increased by the ah- | scuce of everything except the most necessary furniture, and by tho wailing wind which found entrance at a hun? dred crevices, sending Icy currents ncross the wretched garret. The young woman, crouching close to the dying fire, of a small stove...

Matrimony. The following advertisement ap? peared recently in a Japanese news? paper, and suggests that the land of the Mikado may be a good olace for a matrimonial agency; also that the Ideal she of one man, at least, ha* distinct limitation: "Wanted, a wife. If she Is pretty, she need not be clever. If she is rich, she need not be pretty. If she Is clever, she need -not be perfect in form (provided, al ' ways, that she is not conceited). Hei station In life is no object; neither ii the remoteness of her place of abode, whether in country or town. She ought to be in the neighborhood of twenty years of age, more or less. The would-be bridegroom is an artist of Osaka, occupying a medium posi? tion in society. Ladies desiring a union arc requested to attend at the office of Osaka Mainichl Shimbun by the twenty-fifth instant, where lull particulars will be given." Croav Currents. "Cross Currents," by Mary Angela Dickens, tells us of the vicissitudes nf a young and beautiful actress in ...

-vi ? ?TicE. D&? GOOTy? W0TI0N8. BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CLOTHING, RDBBEB GOODS J. I/. I! A15 KU, P00AHO1STAS, VA Low prices and polite eiern?. Vol. xlviii. no. tazewelj This is the Season Of the year when everything is scarce and overworked wives worry over what to have for dinner. You can do no better than take the advice of au old housekeoper and got from It. C. CHAPMAN a small quantity of that fine Groeu Tea or if you prefer it try Black Tea or He-No Tea (he keeps every kind) and then buy a small quantity?say two or three pounds each?of Dried Peaches, Apricots or Pruuos (he has some excellent goods iu this line), and by the way ? noticed while there tho other day?I sup? pose he boa some left yet?a complete lino of goods. Buch as Chow Chow, Worcestor Sauco, Horse Rad? ish, Prepared Mustard, Catsup, &c, that you'll find excellent with meats. CHAPMAN seems to bo building up quite a 'Top'' for fiue goods and I am so glad of it, for do you know iti* very seldom you can lind in a ...

is proposod to enact extraordinary penalties for trairt robbing. i.'.' - ?- -?-?is The united wealth- of Whittior and Tennyson was $418,000, Vhich, the Boston Trauscript thinks, is pretty good for poets. Acoordiufjfjo the statistic) of tho In? terstate Commerce ?onim s~'oii i\ railway passenger' stand* ono chance in 10,823, 15,'J to he killed, while traveling. Miss Ells Knowlcs will not1 be Atlor noy-Gencral of Montana, after oil, an? nounces the St. Louis Star-Sayings, hut the horrid man who opposed her will not bo aide to boast of much of a plurality. "Electric railways will safely convey passengers at the rate of 150 miles an hour at au early day," said Professor William D. Marks, Superintendent of the Edison Electric Light Company, and it now seems, to the Boston Transcript, that his prediction--is about to materialize, both im tlfis-country nftd abroad., Herbert Spencer, the famous English philosopher, now seventy-three years of age, estimates that for forty years of an active ...

Mflr Cent** Stria? ;(?}&nd's moat busy tear bolog tba yoatortUr oToriiD? i9?W aria dlatressln? . /out? lady, radiant in lovellncas that usually attends tWoe$ \7, traveled throe entire blocks Rurally oo fire, and yet gave do sigo, tlbr did sbo betray her distress to any tfne, altoiough passers-by who hap Gued tr> bo possessed of keen olfae? ry organs may havo detected, tin tvddr of burning woolens and flannels. It is related by those who know tbo particulars that the young lady was engaged in the mysteries or her toilet, Sroparatory to a street promenade.* A jrsot strings-refused to be cut bias,or Ionic thing of that sort, and was sub ectod to tbo disci pi 1 no of a lighted amp In order to shorten it Burning the striog in two pieces was a success for the time, and the young lady com ?plcted .her. make - up and hastily started down-town. Sbo was raors 'than a quarterot.a.tuile from home, when tho horrible fact was discovered ?thav; h?r under-clothing was ou Atom ?u inaccessible...

OTICE. DBT OOO^t KOTION8. DOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CLOTHING, RUBBER GOODS. J. L. BARER, POOAHONTAB, VA Low prices and polite oleris. lOL^in^M-j^ TAZEWELI This is the Season Of the year when overytbing is scarce and overworked wives worry over what to have for dinner. You can do no bettor than take the advice of an old housekeeper and get from R. C. CHAPMAN a small quantity of that fiue Greou Tea or if you prefer it try Black Tea or He-No Tea (he keeps every kind) and then buy a small quantity?say two or three pounds each?of Dried Peaches, Apricots or Prunes (he has some excellent goods in this line), and by the way I noticed while there tho other. day?I sup? pose he has some left yet?a complete lino of goods, suoh as Chow Chow, Worcester Sauco, Horse Wi ish, Prepared Mustard, Catsup, &c, that you'll fiud excellent with meats. CHAPMAN seems to be building up quite a "rep" for fine goods and I am so glad of it, for do you know it in very seldom you cau find in a town so small as this s...

_1>? . -rr-<?'?? Tbc increase in the nurubor of persons ?who wear glasses has been very marked within a few yenrj. '?'The cdurts of Georgia havo recently given out some interesting telegraph laws. One decision exompts telegraph companies from peualtics for failnro to deliver messages on Sunday, and an? other decides that a telegraph company ?is not excused from using care because a message is ungrammatical. The most recent estimates of the capi? tal invested in the olecrical industries of the United States is 6725,000,000, and of this amount $3.*>0,000,0()0 represents the proportion which electric lighting and power have attained; (100,000,000 is also the estimated investment in elec? trical supplies, of which the electric lighting and railway appliances consti? tute a large proportion. The wheelmen of live years ago would havo laughed, opines the Sau Francisco Chronicle, if any one had suggested that a good road bicycle could be tinned out weighing only 111 pounds, yet thi...

5V ** .-" ftrnrf ilio l-iiinbnrir iMipatrji. It not only contains all the rieiw, but more ?peclal tclecrapUlo ?nd exclusive feature* v appear in its column* than In ?ny other news paper hi this section of the country. Every. . body reads it,-everybody advertises in it: so ?. ?nould you. . , , ,_. Austria has added 3,600 men to the peace footing of her army. a Cfclld Eajcys . The pleasant flavor, gentlo action and so e th? ine effect of Syrup of Fi?, when In need of a laxative', and It the father or mother be cos tire er hllipua, the most gratifying results tel. lorr ju'p^o; so that It is the best family rera edy known'anil every family should hare a r bottle. Diamond fields havo been found in Idaho Nantahala.?$100oer-bare. Every Zsharcs se? cures a town lot. Fort wies In the South. Send "tc. for prospectus. A. J. Mcllnde. Atlant?, lij, .Alarge-tract near Kansas City has been purchased,- on yihich it is proposed to colon izo all the negroes of that town. Disease Is unnatural and Is b...

FLOUR, SALT, GROCERIES, ' AKD EVEuYTlIINa BELONOINO IN A SS ' W ^B. T M 1 B Family Grocery Store, ^1 J I i | ^ I j W~A %/ BUSTON & SONS. * VOL. ILVIIl7f?:9"~ ~ TTZEWE. This is the Season Of the year when everything id scarce nnd overworked wives worry over what to havo for dinner. You cau do no hotter than lake tho advice of au old housekeeper und got from H. C. CHAPMAN a small quantity of that fino Green Toa or if you prefer it try Black Tea or Ho-No Ten (he koops every kind) and then buy a small quantity?eay two or three pounds each?of Dried Poaches, Apricots or Prunes (he hus some excellent goods in this line), and by tho way 1 notised while there the other day?I sup pose ho has some loft yot?a complete line of goods, such as Cbow Chow, Worcester Sauco, Horse Rad? ish, Propared Mustard, Catsup, &c, that you'll find excellent with meats. CHAPMAN seems to be building up quite a "rep" for fine goods and I am so glad of it, for do you know it is very seldom you can lind in a ...

Read the IMtteburg Dlnpatcn. It not only contains fill the initv, but more Ipeclal telepraphlc and exclusive feature; apponr in Its columns than In in v other news papor In thin section of the country. Every? body reads It, eveiyhody udvertUjes In It; so ?lionld you. A Mother's Story "When my boy was SX years of agr.a fall brcvtfbt Co Mp which "rsduully grew worse until, when ho waa 6, be could not walk, and we had him treated 0 mouth* at the Children's Hospital in lloston. Hut when he came home ha was worse, and the doc? tors ?ild nothing could be done. 1 be? an giving h;m Hood's \-tarsup:irllla and he im? proved at once. The 1? abscesses on his hip healed up, his appetite lm pr ved and he rood walk.: at. first wltb Willie Uun. erutcho-, then without. He Is now perfect? ly well, lively as any boy." Mus. ICmvi V. Darr, Wallpole, Mona. "llOIID'S l'II.I.S do no! purge, pnln or gripe, but an promptly, enally and effectually. IB ceuUu thereat KIDNEY,LIVERS Bc4uDRD!.n Diabetes, Excessive...

- - .i-j.-.-.-ti-^ ?'Of. i--.--- * rf*t: rL??ftjS?Lfr?ft?CEWES, /^"N "tT " AHD EVEUYTll INCl BELONGINGIN A ffl * ~| ~*H ' "| j?f ^If v <^ Family procery Store, ^ J I j B 8 i f I w HUSTON & SONS. * vol. XlYui. go."io~ 7 ~~ tazewj This is the Season Of the year when everything is scarce und overworked wives worry over whnt to hevo for dinner. You can do uo better than take tiie advice of an old housekoopor und get from 15. C. CHAPMAN a small quautity of that fine Green Tea or if you prefer it try Black Tea or He-No Tea (he keeps every kind) und then buy a smnll quantity?Ray two or three pounds each?of Dried Poaches, Apricots or Prunes (he has kouio excellent goods iu this line), and by the way I noticed while there the other day?I sup poso he has some loft yet?a complete line of goods, such as Chow Chow, Worcester Sauce, Horse Rad? ish, Prepared Mustard, Catsup, &c, that you'll find excellent with meats. CHAPMAN seems to bo building up quito a "rep-' for fine goods" and I a...

Grade railway crossing slaughters are "becoming frightfully frequent and ) deadly. _ Tho London Times recently an? nounced that Mr. Clevolaud was "hunt? ing in tho Adirondncks of Mexico." In Baltimore, Md., about seventy-four per cent, of the homo families, hire aiid twenty-six per cent, own their own homes._ Tho Mnil and Express avers that stone walls of casto arc easily overturned by a judicious uso of cash, quicker, perhaps, in New York than in any other city. As might be expected, exclaims the . Detroit Free Press, the marriage statis? tics of 1SD2 show a veritable boom in the matrimonial market. It was leap year. Miss Clara Barton, of the Red Cross Association, thinks there is too much suffering in this country now to think of moving in behalf of Russian famine suf? ferers again. Sweden is tho only European country in which there nro a' many as ten miles or. railroad to cacii 10,000 inhabitants, while in this country there are only two Slates in which there is less than that pr...